AP - Scores of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle.
AP - Republican presidential contender John McCain on Saturday said he wants to again allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada as a way to bring health care costs under control.
AP - For two years, Frances Kinley-Manton says she lived with arthritis pain in her hips, a condition that kept her in a wheelchair. She wanted hip replacement surgery. But doctors at Britain's National Health Service said she was too fat for the operation. "They wouldn't even put me on a waiting list,"Kinley-Manton recalled.
AP - A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high risk, and had previously rejected another donor "because of his lifestyle,"her attorney said.
AP - Formerly conjoined twins have "excellent"chances of survival after a grueling separation surgery, and one of the toddlers is even breathing on her own, doctors said Friday.
Reuters - Obese women are at increased risk of having their infant die soon after birth, especially if premature rupture of membranes (PROM) occurs before full-term, according to a report in the journal Obstetrics &Gynecology.
AP - More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year —the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- A large, five-year studylooking at the genetic and environmental factors that may cause autism, aswell as other developmental delays, has started enrolling 2,700 childrenand their families from six areas in the United States.
AFP - When her husband of 55 years began seeing another woman, former US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor did not begin high-profile divorce proceedings or condemn his infidelity.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers believethey're on the way to solving a major question about breast cancer: Whichwomen have a type of lesion in their breast duct that will progress toinvasive disease?
